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Tango Masters: Osvaldo Pugliese Michael Lavocah a , ♦ milonga press Tango Masters: Osvaldo Pugliese Published in Great Britain by milonga press Cop) right © Michael Lavocah 2016 Michael Lavocah has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998 to be identified as the author of this work This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. All rights reserved First edition 2016 2345678901 milonga press England www.milongapress.com Paperback: ISBN 978-0-9573276-7-2 Series editor: Mike Stocks Cover design: Nigel Orme set in Garamond 11/14 There has never been a group of people that played with such warmth and affection... on stage they stripped their souls bare, and that sent the people crazy. Jorge Vidal - (singer with the orchestra 1949-1951) Locura tanguera )1 (Tango madness Buenos Aires is full of contradictions. She charms as she infuriates. Even more than the grand European capitals that inspired the architects who built her, this is a restless city which never really sleeps. Peace is to be found only beyond, in the vast spaces of the Argentine countryside. In the barrios, the mechanical impulses of the city are never absent, but their disturbing influence is alleviated by a pervasive lyricism. Flowers tumble from balconies as traffic drums on the cobbles of the streets below’. Busy junctions still have pavement cafes and ice cream parlours. This is a city which has not allowed the metropolis to drown out the human spirit. At the crossroads of the human and the mechanical there arose a new7 music that was not really concerned with fusing these rhythmic and lyrical impulses. Instead, it allowed them to stand together, like an unresolved question - not an enigma, but a contradiction that cannot be eliminated, only lived through. Today this music stands far removed from the nostalgia and sentimentality that perv ades the tango universe. It is the music of the only orchestra from the golden age of tango that wras still developing as that age drew' to a close, because it is a music that looks forward rather than backward. It still sounds modern today, and continues to offer those wTio hear it not an escape, but the opportunity for the spirit to rise in order to meet a reality that is contradictor}7 and uncomfortable. This is the music of Osvaldo Pugliese. Michael Lavocah Buenos Aires April 2015 1 Locura tanguera is the title of an instrumental tango written by first ban- doneön Osvaldo Ruggiero and recorded in 1966. Contents Part 1: The Sound 1. Introducdon 2. Yu mb a 3. The inheritance of De Caro 4. The first orchestra (1939) 5. Osvaldo Ruggiero: bandoneon 6. Enrique Camerano: violin 7. Osvaldo Pugliese: piano 8. Roberto Chanel: voice Part 2: The Repertoire 9. An introduction to the repertoire 10. Pugliese before Pugliese (1943) 11. Ruggiero comes of age (1944) 12. Recuerdo (1944) 13. The fans 14. Alberto Moran: a voice from the heart (1945) 15. La yumba (1946) 16. Erased (1948) 17. Permitted? (1949) 18. Jorge Vidal (1949) 19. The 1950s: a new style 20. New versions? (1952) 21. On the radio (1953) 22. Moran goes solo (1954) 23. Prison (1955) 24. Clavel rojo (Red carnation) (1956) 25. Anclao en Pans (Stranded in Paris) (1957) vm Part 3: The 1960s and beyond 26. Still moving forwards 27. The missing link (1960) 28. The 1960s: Corrientes bajo cero (Corrientes below zero) 29. Sexteto Tango (1968) 30. The 1970s: free to work? 31. A1 Colon!! 32. Globetrotters 33. Muchas gracias, Maestro Part 4: The Man & the Myth 34. Inside the orchestra 35. San Pugliese, antimufa 36. Osvaldo Pugliese: a short biography 37. Pugliese on Pugliese 38. The voices of those who loved him Appendices A. Pugliese on disc B. Discography C. Orchestra formadons D. Carnival appearances Bibliography Glossary Index of ddes Acknowledgements
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